For years Charles Barkley was the runaway winner in this category, but now he has some competition. Yao Ming played in a celebrity golf tournament in China and… he’s not good. Not that you really expect him to be — when you are 7’6″ there are a whole lot of things that can go wrong in your swing. But he’s not good. The stance is awkward, the club seems too short (can you say custom-made shafts?) and there is just a whole lot of badness.

But it’s for charity, so we’ll just laugh it off. And if you want to compare it to Barkley…

Unless someone says Yao plays a lot, I would still call Sir Charles worse by far. If Yao plays often and is that bad then it is closer, but Chuck is still worse. That hitch/stop in his swing should have been fixable years ago, yet it is still there….and he golfs often. I would guess Yao rarely golfs.